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 BRUEGHEL a River (1C24), four others, National Mu- seum, Amsterdam ; Christ and the Magda- len, Rotterdam Museum ; The Flood, six others, Cassel Gallery ; four in Brunswick Museum ; Forge of Vulcan (figures by Van Balen), Feast of Bacchus (figures by Rot- tenhammer), St. Hubert (figures by Ru- bens), The Paradise, Still life, Berlin Mu- seum ; Landscapes (dated 1604, 1605 (3), 1608 (3), 1611 (2), 1612, 1613), twenty-two others, Dresden Gallery ; Flora (figures by Rubens), Landscapes (1598, 1599, 1609, 1610, 1612, 1615, 1616, 1620), eighteen others, Old Piuakothek, Munich ; Adoration of the Magi (1598), The Four Elements (1604, figures by Rottenhammer), Bouquet (1625), four others, Vienna Museum ; Land- scapes (7), Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Christ on Lake Genesareth (1595), Land- scapes with Hermits (1595, 1596, 1597), Abundance (1605), Bouquet (1608), Daniel in Lion's Den (1608), Fire and Water (1610, 1611), Ambrosiaua, Milan. His son Ambrosius (born Aug. 10, 1617, died Feb. 9, 1675), was a distinguished flower painter ; pupil of his brother Jan, the j younger. AUgem. d. Biog., iii. 403 ; Biog. nat. de Belgique, iii. 26 ; Ch. Blanc, ficole flamande ; Cat. du Musee d'Anvers (1874), 304 ; Dohme, li.; J. van der Kellen, i. 220 ; Michiel, v. 351 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 40 ; Rooses (Reber), 127. BRUEGHEL, JAN, the younger, born in Antwerp, baptized Sept. 13, 1601, died after 1677. Flemish school ; son and pupil of Velvet Brueghel ; went to Italy in 1622, returned in 1625, little influenced by Italian art. Like his father, he remained essen- tially Flemish. He was for a long time un- justly ignored, as many of his pictures were attributed to his father. Rubens, Van Diepenbeeck, Van Tulden, and Van Ba- len often supplied the figures in his land- scapes. Works: Halt in front of an Inn (1641); Landscape, Tower on Seashore (1642), Dresden Gallery. Biog. nat. de Bel- gique, iii. 34 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole flamande ; Dohme, li.; Michiels, v. 370. BRUEGHEL, PEETER, the elder, called 1 Boeren (Peasant) Brueghel, born at Brue- g h e 1, 11 e a r Breda, about 1525-1530, * died in Brus- sels about 1570. Flem- ish school; pu- pil of Pieter Koeck van , Aalst, and of Hierouymus Cock, and greatly influenced by the works of Hieronymus Bosch, whose subjects he im- itated ; became master of the guild in Ant- werp in 1551, and shortly after went to Italy ; after his return lived at Antwerp until 1563, then settled at Brussels. Paint- ed chiefly scenes from peasant life, which he treated from a realistic and humorous point of view, not always avoiding coarse- ness ; also some scriptural subjects and ghost and incantation scenes, in the manner of Bosch. Left a great number of masterly drawings, and some etchings made on his travels. Works : Triumph of Death, Mad- rid Museum ; Landscape, Village Dance, Louvre, Paris ; Job on his Dunghill, Douai Museum ; Village Feast, Nancy Museum ; Massacre of the Innocents, Brussels Muse- Christ on Lake Genesareth, Seaport, urn ; two Landscapes, Cassel Gallery ; St. John preaching, Basle Museum ; do., and Peas- ants' Frolic, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; do., and Peasants' Brawl, Dresden Gallery ; Con- test between Carnival and Lent (1559), Chil- dren's Frolic (1560), Massacre of the Inno- cents, Christ bearing the Cross (1563), Tow- er of Babel (1563), four others, Museum, Vi- enna ; St. John preaching, Dance of Death, The Blind leading the Blind, and others, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. ; The Blind leading the Blind (1568), Naples Museum ; Christ bearing his Cross, Uffizi, Florence. Allgem. d. Biog., iii. 400; Biog. nat de Belgique, iii. 19 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole flamande ; Dohme, li. ; Michiels, v. 321 ; Rooses (Reber), 75.